[plug] [OT] Ferral Politics

[Russell Steicke]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 11:00:57AM +0800, Ben Jensz wrote:
...
> One other interesting thing that not many people have realised, is that if
> the ALP get in to federal government, then I think they have state level
> government in almost all of the states, which means changing the
> constitution could be achieved quite easily.  You only need the support of
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In Australia?  You must be joking.  Our record of approving
constitutional changes (which others have noted does not involve state
governments) is very low, although I forget the historical numbers.  We
passed on the republic opportunity, and all four of the questions in the
bicentennial referendum were voted down.

> the states, not the territories in changing the constitution.  Whether they
> would do anything with that power, and whether that'd be a good thing or a
> bad thing would have to be seen.
...
> / Ben


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Russell Steicke

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